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Microsoft's New COPILOT Function Brings AI to Excel's Calculation Engine, Sparking Governance and Licensing Fears
Microsoft has quietly slipped generative AI into Excel’s formula bar. The new COPILOT function, now rolling out to Microsoft 365 Insiders, accepts natural-language prompts and cell ranges, then...
Windows 11 KB5063878 Triggers Drive Disappearances During Heavy I/O, Pushing Some to Consider Linux
The August 2025 cumulative update for Windows 11, KB5063878 (OS Build 26100.4946), is causing solid-state drives and some hard disks to vanish from the system during sustained write operations,...
Lawsuit Claims Microsoft Abandons Windows 10 to Corner AI PC Market as E-Waste Fears Mount
A California consumer has turned the scheduled end of Windows 10 support into a courtroom battle, filing a lawsuit on August 7, 2025, that accuses Microsoft of deliberately killing off the operating...
Microsoft’s Copilot+ PCs: Where On-Device AI Shines—and Why the Revolution Is Still on Hold
A year ago, Microsoft pitched Copilot+ PCs as a new class of computers where on-device NPUs (neural processing units) would run powerful AI models locally, delivering private, instant experiences...
Microsoft's Mu Model Brings On-Device AI Agent to Windows 11 Settings — But Only for Copilot+ PCs
The August 2025 Windows 11 update shipped a quiet but transformative feature: a natural-language agent inside the Settings app that can understand commands like "make my mouse pointer bigger" and...
Ricoh’s 5-Day AI Bootcamp: Upskilling Over 1,000 Staff to Fuel a Copilot-Powered Services Pivot
Ricoh Asia Pacific has just completed a region-wide, five-day AI upskilling sprint designed to transform more than a thousand of its employees from printer salespeople into Copilot-powered solution...
Microsoft Launches COPILOT Function: AI-Powered Prompts Now in Excel Cells
{ "title": "Microsoft Launches COPILOT Function: AI-Powered Prompts Now in Excel Cells", "content": "A new formula is rewriting the rules of spreadsheet automation: Microsoft’s COPILOT function...
Microsoft Tests COPILOT Formula in Excel: Native AI That Recalculates Automatically
Microsoft has started testing a highly anticipated feature in Excel: a native AI function called COPILOT that embeds generative AI directly into the spreadsheet's calculation engine. Announced for...
Microsoft Sneaks Copilot Promotions into Windows 11 Start Menu, Fueling Ad Backlash
Microsoft has begun testing AI-powered Copilot promotions directly inside the Windows 11 Start menu’s Recommended area, the latest in a series of moves that increasingly treat core OS surfaces as...
Ricoh APAC Bets Big on AI: Microsoft Copilot, InnoAI Center, and a Workforce Skilling Blitz
Ricoh Asia Pacific is betting its future on a tight integration between hardware, managed services, and Microsoft’s Copilot platform, marking one of the region’s most ambitious attempts by a...
Microsoft's New COPILOT Function Puts Generative AI Inside Excel Formulas
Microsoft has taken its deepest plunge yet into AI-assisted productivity by embedding a generative AI function directly into Excel’s formula engine. The new =COPILOT function, now rolling out to...
Windows 11 24H2: Microsoft Lifts Final Safeguard Holds, Paving Way for AI Adoption
Microsoft has quietly resolved the last of the safeguard holds that were preventing certain PCs from installing Windows 11 version 24H2, officially ending an 18-month saga of compatibility blocks...